Did your newspaper run this quote?

Padres OF Mike Cameron, talking up the start of this weekend's series in LA....

"Oh, man, it's about as big as it can get around here," said Mike Cameron, whose bases-loaded single broke open a scoreless game in the seventh inning. "We've got a little bit of energy and momentum going into LA. I'm sure they're going to be ready to go and everything. And it's going to be a big Friday night matinee in LA."

AP ran this and it appeared that way in the two newspapers I checked.
Do the think the right thing was to just delete the word "matinee" or leave it as is?

Padres OF Mike Cameron, talking up the start of this weekend's series in LA....

"Oh, man, it's about as big as it can get around here," said Mike Cameron, whose bases-loaded single broke open a scoreless game in the seventh inning. "We've got a little bit of energy and momentum going into LA. I'm sure they're going to be ready to go and everything. And it's going to be a big Friday night matinee in LA."

AP ran this and it appeared that way in the two newspapers I checked.

Do the think the right thing was to just delete the word "matinee" or leave it as is?

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Won't it be a matinee in L.A. because the fans will be there for the first couple of innings and then leave?

I just asked our AP guy here in the press box, and he said he'd have either taken out the word "matinee" or made some reference making it clear that he knew it was a malaprop. I personally think you have to do one or the other.